It’s like somebody decapitated a Nascar robot for your musical enjoyment. While I’m not a big fan of watching cars go around in circles all day myself, while hearing phrases like “y’all” and “get her done” and the like, this makes me actually want to see a robot Nascar driver. There’s just something cool about LED’s under a helmet and a CD tray mouth branded with my favorite home renovation store.
It’s an AM/FM radio and CD player helmet, designed like the one Tony Stewart wears when driving his #20 Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing. Comes with a remote control. It would also double as a nice psycho trophy for the unbalanced Nascar fan who hasn’t managed to get close enough to bring home a head of their own for their desk. It will cost you $140 from Wal-Mart. Just where you might expect to get a gem like this.
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Written by Conner Flynn on November 13th, 2008 with no comments.
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Joining the ranks of Pandora and Simplify Media, the subject of today’s iPhone App Review is Flycast. Flycast is a mobile broadcast service that offers over 1,000 channels comprising internet radio stations as well as other digital channels.
Flycast offers certain shows in video, on top of the thousands of shows, webcasts and channels listed. With so many channels on there, the challenge was in ease of use; Flycast succeeded in passing this challenge, as the user interface is very easy to figure out.
At first look it would seem this is just like any other app or service that offers streaming internet radio. But it certainly has a few differences. Flycast offers some unique features that sets it apart from other internet radio apps out there.
- Web accessibility feature that allows you to listen to your audio stream via Safari browser instead of the native app, enabling you to perform other tasks at the same time.
- Bookmarking your favorite stations to easily return to them.
- In case you get into a show halfway through, Flycast has a feature that allows you to start certain channels (talk radio, for example) at the top of that hour so you don’t miss anything.
- Search for stations that play a specific artist, or search through any Shoutcast station.
- The opportunity to skip songs on certain channels.
- Nice little battery conservation tool that can be activated in the settings.This tool pre-buffers the audio stream well ahead of what you’re currently listening to.
I had the opportunity to download this application recently and thoroughly enjoyed it. Flycast offers an extensive amount of material for every genre, whether it be news, politics, sports, or music. I went from listening to some of my favorite music to listening to the ESPN broadcasts I missed yesterday.
I found setup to be quite easy; to get signed on, simply go into the settings and set up a user name and password, and you’re ready to go. There were some connection issues, but they were few and far between and I couldn’t tell if it was due to my WiFi connection or caused by the app itself.
Overall the experience has been good. While it will not replace Pandora or Simplify Media, it does add to it and gives me one more reason to enjoy my iPhone.
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Written by Brad Molen on October 16th, 2008 with no comments.
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If you’re anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Sirius Sub-X2 Boombox, you’re going to have to wait a bit longer. But to further whet your appetite, a few new photos of the device have leaked out today.
The SUB-X2 will be very much like the SUB-X1 model. It will feature a headphone jack on the front of the device, along with an auxiliary input. This will make it so you can plug in your MP3 player and enjoy your own tunes through the system.
You will also be able to plug in and use non-universal docking Sirius radios with the Boombox. We don’t know any pricing information at this time or additional specs, but we could probably expect a price tag near that of the current SUB-X1–about $100.
[via Electronista]
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Written by Brenda Stokes on October 13th, 2008 with no comments.
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Chumby has been around for some time now, and the team behind it are keeping their promise to release updated features for the squidgy touchscreen companion. The latest is support for Pandora radio, the streaming online music service that creates custom ’stations’ based on your favorite tracks. Pandora on Chumby allows you to log into you account, listen to existing stations and create new ones, with playback through the integrated speakers.
Pandora can be set as the alarm clock sound, so you can be woken with a track in the style of your choosing. All of the usual online Pandora controls are apparently there, including the ability to mark currently playing songs as liked or not liked (which affects what music is picked for you next), bookmark them for later research, and a QuickMix function if you don’t want to get too involved.
Chumby is priced at $179.95 and available in three different colors. It relies on a WiFi network for connectivity. Currently the Pandora widget is yet to show up in the download section, but presumably existing owners will be able to update their Chumby with it soon. Update: Pandora shows up as a music source, not a widget; simply restart your Chumby and it will update with the new Pandora source. You can find it in the Music menu.
[via Electronista]
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Written by Chris Davies on October 7th, 2008 with no comments.
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We’ve been covering a lot of these radio-controlled helicopters lately, but this Falcon model is rather interesting. In fact, it offers more functionality than just flying around.
The Falcon Radio Controlled Helicopter can hold BB balls in its cargo area. This way, you can shoot at targets while flying the copter around. Can you imagine? Not only can you wing that helicopter around and bug everyone nearby, now you can shoot balls at them, too!
Okay, I am not condoning using this to torment people, but come on. What do people use them for otherwise? The battery can last for eight minutes of sustained flight, which is pretty good. However, I doubt the small cache of balls will last for the whole time. I’d have fired them off within the first 30 seconds, flat.
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Written by Brenda Stokes on September 30th, 2008 with no comments.
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There’s no shortage of devices sprinkled with Swarovski crystals. Unfortunately, most are so smothered with bling that they just look tacky. The Elements Stardust Radio is actually done up right, with just the right ratio of bling and device. It actually looks nice.
It’s a Sonoro musical player that has been covered with 3,900 Swarovski crystals in a white floral pattern against a background of black crystals. It features 10 preset AM/FM stations, iPod/notebook/PMP compatibility as well as an integrated alarm clock. Hopefully we can close the “Crap me up with Swarovski” chapter on this high note, but somehow I doubt it.
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Written by Conner Flynn on September 17th, 2008 with no comments.
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Sony has created a somewhat original looking and refreshing third-generation iPod/iPhone clock radio dock, the ICF-CD3iP, according to an apparent leak by a Sony Insider. The dock has a unique circular design that holds a clock, AM/FM radio and a CD player, with simple controls in front for playback.
A side dock holds the Apple device. It can play MP3’s, CDs and CD-R/RW audio discs. The iPhone or iPod are integrated with the alarm clock and it comes with a remote so you don’t have to get out of bed to turn it off. Looks like it has nice big numbers as well, for those that need them. The ICF-CD3iP will reportedly be available in October. Price is estimated at $100.
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Written by Conner Flynn on September 11th, 2008 with no comments.
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Only Darth Vader could be so evil as to offer up a radio/CD player combo in the age of digital music. Such is the dark side. The crappy sound quality will make you suffer, suffering will lead to hate, hate will lead to anger and anger will lead to fear and before you know it you’re the latest Sith apprentice. Still, there’s always something cool about having Darth Vader’s helmet nearby.
And despite the fact that it plays CDs and offers the radio, it does have the option to connect your MP3 player so I guess it’s not all that bad. It’s got six buttons to control the music plus two apparently hidden inside the mouth for some reason. As an added bonus, when you play a CD you can see it spinning in Vader’s eyes with have red LEDs. Requires 6 x LR14 batteries. The price? $88 Yeah, Vader is evil. Am I gonna pay $88 for a CD player? I think not.
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Written by Conner Flynn on September 1st, 2008 with no comments.
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